Frank Light

More than twenty literary journals and anthologies have published adaptations from the draft memoir Adjust to Dust: On the Backroads of Southern Afghanistan from which Frank Light's piece, "Long-Distance Learning," draws. A number of his poems, fiction, and other essays have also been published in the last several years.

Long-Distance Learning

That old-time feel of can in hand loosens tongues as much as the contents do—our first beer and really our first chance to kick back since the two-day drive from Kabul last month. This is September 1971, Farah province on the border with Iran. Keynote honors go to the eldest: your humble servant. Sitting on the landing outside Werner’s room, I begin by saying Afghanistan was a big mistake.
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